William Mostyn (priest) explained

William Mostyn was a 17th-century Welsh Anglican priest.^[1]

The son of Sir Roger Mostyn, M.P.,^[2] he was born in Flintshire and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.^[3] He became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 1625; and was incorporated at Oxford in 1639.^[4] He became Archdeacon of Bangor in 1633, Rector of Christleton in 1634 and Vicar of Whitford, Flintshire in 1639.

He died c. 1669/1670 at Plâs Mostyn, Wrexham.^[5]

References

1. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D849643 National Archives
2. https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/9224eb64-56ce-35ec-be6c-3e06056bb4c9 JISC (Bangor) Mostyn Manuscripts
3. [Alumni Cantabrigienses]
4. 'Mordaunt-Mytton', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1026–1049. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1026-1049 [accessed 8 March 2020]
5. [Alumni Cantabrigienses]